Full Name
Antonia Apps
Job Title
Partner
Company
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Speaker Bio
Antonia Apps is a partner and Co-Chair of the Litigation Department at Paul, Weiss. Prior to joining Paul Weiss, Antonia served in multiple senior roles at the SEC. From 2023 to 2025, she led the SEC’s New York office, the largest regional office with over 600 attorneys, accountants, investigators, securities compliance examiners and others. In 2025, Antonia served first as Acting Deputy Director of the Enforcement Division, where she helped oversee all of the SEC’s enforcement activities and manage a 1,300-person division handling the agency’s investigations and trials, and was then named Deputy Director of Enforcement overseeing the enforcement program in the New York, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia regional offices.
Before joining the SEC, Antonia was a litigation partner at another large law firm, representing public companies, financial institutions, investment banks, asset managers and private equity firms in white collar and internal investigations, regulatory enforcement proceedings, and high-stakes commercial litigation.
Earlier in her career, Antonia served for over seven years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney’s Office, where she led many of the government’s highest-profile securities fraud and insider trading cases.
Antonia has tried 19 cases and is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. She is a frequent speaker and commentator on white collar and securities enforcement issues and teaches a course on White Collar Criminal Law & Procedure at Harvard Law School. Antonia has received numerous industry accolades, including being ranked in Chambers USA for “White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations” where clients called her an “incredibly bright and detail-oriented lawyer” and praised her “excellent judgment and analytical skills.” She has been included on The National Law Journal’s “Litigation Trailblazers” (2020) and Crain’s New York Business’s “Notable Women in Law” (2019) lists. She was named a Lawdragon “Legend” in 2025 and as one of Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Lawyers in America” every year from 2014 to 2022.
Before joining the SEC, Antonia was a litigation partner at another large law firm, representing public companies, financial institutions, investment banks, asset managers and private equity firms in white collar and internal investigations, regulatory enforcement proceedings, and high-stakes commercial litigation.
Earlier in her career, Antonia served for over seven years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney’s Office, where she led many of the government’s highest-profile securities fraud and insider trading cases.
Antonia has tried 19 cases and is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. She is a frequent speaker and commentator on white collar and securities enforcement issues and teaches a course on White Collar Criminal Law & Procedure at Harvard Law School. Antonia has received numerous industry accolades, including being ranked in Chambers USA for “White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations” where clients called her an “incredibly bright and detail-oriented lawyer” and praised her “excellent judgment and analytical skills.” She has been included on The National Law Journal’s “Litigation Trailblazers” (2020) and Crain’s New York Business’s “Notable Women in Law” (2019) lists. She was named a Lawdragon “Legend” in 2025 and as one of Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Lawyers in America” every year from 2014 to 2022.
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